細節
CECIL KING (1921-1986)
Baggot Street Painting 1
signed, inscribed and dated 'Cecil King/ Blue Painting 69' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in. (122 x 91 cm.)
Painted in 1969.
來源
with Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, where purchased by Dr & Mrs J.B. Kearney, Cork in December 1971.
Their sale; James Adam & Sons, Dublin in association with Bonhams, 4 December 2007, lot 56, where acquired for the present collection.
展覽
Cork, Art Society Gallery, Cecil King, December 1971, no. 1, catalogue not traced.
Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Cecil King Retrospective Exhibition, October - November 1981, no. 35.
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Championing Irish Art: The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, April - July 2023, p. 59, illustrated, exhibition not numbered.

榮譽呈獻

Elizabeth Comba
Elizabeth Comba Specialist

拍品專文

From the late 1960s, figurative elements in Cecil King's work were replaced by plain fields of colour and geometric forms. Baggot Street Painting I belongs to the 'Baggot Street Series', 1969 - another work from this series is in the permanent collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. As with the present work, the artist's connection to different cities is often explicit in the titles of his paintings, as he sought to distil his experience of the place into his work.

Cecil King is one of Ireland's most significant modern artists. He played a huge role in the advancement and appreciation of contemporary art in Ireland, co-founding the Contemporary Irish Art Society in the early 1960s and Rosc in 1967. In 1981, King had his first retrospective at the Hugh Lane Gallery and in 2021 they commemorated the centenary of his birth with another exhibition entitled Cecil King - Present in Time Future. In 2008 the Irish Museum of Modern Art held a major solo exhibition of his work, Cecil King - A Legacy of Painting.

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